Wednesday of Challenge

I need to apologize because this is a lil late! but today was a busy day! My dear father have a dr's appointment today! today he is going to get the results from a biopsy to know if he have cancer, so we decided to be there with him! THANKS and PRAISE to God! he is fine!! so today we were out of here since early morning we have breakfast outside so we were out of here pretty early! and we came at mid evening! so I had to do some stuff and then I NEED to see the premiere of DAMAGES!! ohhhh that was good! do you see Damages? if noot check it out! the actors/actresses are just GREAT!!

Anyway onto the challenge! since is the first one of 2009 I want to do something pretty easy and since I didn't have so much time today! I took a card from my stash! this one was made for my FIRST attempt to get publish!! lol! NO, they didn't selected but I enjoy doing it!! so for this challenge I want to use a COLOR COMBO! I love the thing to work with color combos! so this is the color combo for today! RED, PINK, KRAFT, IVORY and BROWN! Hope to see your creations. With Love Day around the corner I think this color combo can make it easier for you do to Love cards!

Talk to you soon, and get your cards in!! I'm going to send a RAK (stamped images and other goodies) to the first one post it here!! and one using the RANDOM GENERATOR! You can post it on your blog and comment here with the link or you can post it on an online gallery and use MCWC1 code!

Love,
Diana

6 days 'til Christmas a LONG day!

OUCH!!! Today was a really LONG day! We went out today with the idea of pay the cell phone bill (the one with the company we used to be for more than 7 years! and that we didn't have any contract now! for my surprise when I tried to pay on the authomatic machine it said that my balance was more than $700 so I called customer service and they said that my contract was until 2009! wich I'm sure isn't so I wait for 2 hours to be attended for a cs representative! she reminds of us (long story) so she just added a note in the system (because our account was cancelled, we switch company) so she couldn't do more than that, then she put me on the phone with the Financial dept! and the adjust me the account (well I need to wait 2 biz day to be sure of this) wow more than 3 hours there!! so our shopping trip was reduced now he left almost 4 hours later because we need to have lunch! we headed to another town wich is about an hour to go shopping (some outlets stores) we finished the shopping time around 6:30 and we came back home!

I cooked something quick and started working here on my workshop I cut about 6 of this project but I'm so tired!! that I just put together this 3!! Hope you like it, there are post-it note holders!! I did them with the scor-pal.

How to?

With a 7½ x 3½ cardstock, score at 3½ and 4. Then embelished as desire! Easy peasy!! right?

I need to run, I'm sooooooooo TIRED, the problem with the cell phone company just took a lot of my energy, the lady at customer service through the phone was soooooo NASTY!! that I was sooo UPSET!! lol, now I just can laugh about it!! Have a great weekend!

Love,
Diana

9 days 'til Christmas more last minute gifts ideas

Today I do about 5 loads of laundry! finished a couple of other cleaning stuff here in the house! I met with a scrapper of my area!! she is very sweet and talented! it was very nice to get to know with scrappers right? (We met at the Postal Office parking because she ordered some TAC products, and we chat a lil bit there because she brings some project she did recently! and I can tell you everything was sooo cute!!)

And as soon as I start working on my table I found this lil jars filled with candies (I filled them a week ago that I found those M&M in christmas colors and I just took a package to do this) butt I haven't do anything to make them pretty!! so I finished this and now ready to try to clean up my tabble mess!

Have a wonderful night!

Love,
Diana

11 days 'til CHRISTMAS and BLOG HOP!

I'm sooo excited!! A special Angel! decided to start doing a BLOG HOP! and she made 2-3 that I couldn't enter because I had no extra time or because I didn't have anything to work with the theme!! I have seen a lot of Winter creations out there! BUT the winter in Puerto Rico doesn't look like the one I love to see on your creations, lol!

The other day I was on Paper Wings and noticed the theme for the new BLOG HOP!! do you have an idea about what the theme is? yessssss, is WINTER! So I said to myself, this is your chance to do something WINTER! without been looking crazy, lol!! So here is my creation for the BLOG HOP! Hope you enjoy it, I can tell you that I enjoy a lot! doing it, I had LOTS OF FUN!! can you imagine? I used glitter, liquid applique, snowflakes!! and this darling set! (Welcome Home) that I felt in love with since I saw it on the catalog and this is my first card with it!! wohoooooooooo!! Of course I added my lovely trim!! and a lil bit of texture using the cuttlebug embossing folders, what you think?

Please visit my dear angel friends and check their creations for this BLOG HOP!!

Stacy
Bridget
Carol
Christina
Angela K
Jany
Melisa
Rita
Maria
Diane
Laurie U
Jen
Deb
Laurie W

Love,
Diana

9th day of DECEMBER!

WOW! Tomorrow is December 10!! Just 15 days 'til Christmas!!I hope you have enjoy the first 9 days of December. I hope I can be able to indulge you with some creative ideas through Christmas day! I have so much fun creating with you on mind!!

Are you done with all the things you had on mind to do before Christmas day? Are you ready for 2009? Well I need to say that I haven't finish yet! and that I'm not ready for 2009!! I know that this new year will bring lots of new stuff to my life so I need to prepare myself for all that!! and I just haven't! but I will! I trust my God that He is the one in control and I know He loves me and wants the best for me and my family! He is our Lord and I trust Him for everything saying that I just have to change what I have said! I'm ready for 2009!!! are you?

Do you have any goals or resolutions? If you have any share with me I will love to know what you have on mind! Mines are easy I need to lose about 10 pounds (yes the same 10 from the last 10 years, lol) I guess I don't want to! I want to be able to submit to magazines! I will LOVE to be publish in any magazine!! that have to be a really amazing experience! I remember when at Seminar Margie gave me the envelope with the ribbons inside she was just there looking at me and when I saw the Designer ribbon! I was sooo excited, I just had to call my daughter to let her know and yes I have tears in my eyes!! she was soooo excited for me! (she is 8) and then I just look at Ginger she had a Designer ribbon too!! We were sooooooooooo happy!! so I can imagine!!

Well no more blah, blah! I made this card with the Vintage Holiday paper from TAC (discontinued) I love that paper!!! sooooooooooo much!! I used the Bazzill green from Mimi collection and Kraft, Red and Brown cardstock! The stamp set is Birdy Holiday also from TAC and I add some trim and a jingle bell just to have a lil more fun!!

Hope you like it!

Love,
Diana

Sixth day of DECEMBER and a GC how to...

I'm not a big fan of Gift cards but since they are a good idea I just create this one from an 8½ X 11 cardstock (you can do 4 from an 8½ X 11 cardstock) is a quick and inexpensive idea right? and you can embelish as much as you desire and more personal. You don't have to use those standard that they comes with in some stores!

How to: (see pictures for details)

First cut a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 cardstock (the same size as a card front, cut half and then half again). On the 5 1/2 side score at 1" and 3 1/2. On the 4 1/4 side score at 2/3 each side (see picture for details). Cut the side that you don't need. Ad red line tape to close the sides and embelish as desire!

Love,
Diana

First day of DECEMBER!!

First day of Christmas and to celebrate this special day! I want to share a lil ornament I did the other day! I cut a 3" circle, pass it through the corrugator, crumped it a lil bit and inked it too! I add an eyelet with my crop-a-dile and embelish with a scallop circle punch, a felt tree and some trim and a sentiment from the Feel Better Level A set and you are done!

I really like the simplicity of this lil ornament! I hope you like it too!

Love,
Diana

Another cardstock only card!!

I have been doing cards only with cardstock!! I came to my workshop and just play with the scrap on my table!! I did it in only 5 minutes (including everything!!) I used a lot of tools on it too!! Flower Punch, Crop-a-dile, Corrugator, Coluzzle, Scallop Scissors and White Gel Xtreme Pen!! the sentiment is from the Spanish Sentiment set! The trim is from my stash and yes it was on my table! and the tulle and pin is from Dream Designs! Cardstock are: Brown, Kraft, Robbin Eggs #3 and Green #2 (this last two are DCWV) you can get all this cardstocks through TAC also.

I hope you like it, I know that I enjoy it a lot doing it!

Love,
Diana

25,000 hits!

WOW! I just noticed that I got 25,000 hits! I want to say thanks to all of you that keep coming here to my lil blog! to those that are new to my blog and special thanks to all my friends and new friends that comment on here! you are the reason of this blog! I love to read your comments and to follow your blogs also! I apreaciate it so much!! Thank you from my heart!

This is a card I did yesterday! Using ONLY cardstock and embelishments, of course a lil stamping too! I really like it, let me know what you think!

I used: Spanish Sentiment Stamp- TAC, Robin Eggs #3 DCWV, Green Bazzill from Mimi Collection - TAC, White and Brown from TAC. I also used this tools: Swiss Dots emb folder on my Bigshot, Crimper Corrugator, Oval Scalloped Punch, Trim, Button and Flowers from the embelishment jars and Fiskar Border Punch. Everything (except the Swiss Dot emb folder and the Fiskar punch) you can get it from my online store.

Love ya very much!
Diana